Last year, when we opened the Notebook musical on Broadway, we didn’t get the critical reception we’d wanted, and isn’t it embarrassing to admit you want to be liked, but don’t we all? But it …
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tour de force
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what to wear when the world is burning
8 PM Tuesday night, Santa Ana winds howling like ghost trains, Morrison giving us all headlamps, our neighbor texting FIRE!!!! As another put the one in his yard out with a garden hose, a firetruck …
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Land turtles
At oak island, NC for the week, where my mom’s side of the family has been doing a reunion for 34 years straight now. This my my first time in TEN YEARS, and first time …
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Santa
Morrison worries that we’ve wrapped presents that we say are from Santa in the same paper that we use to wrap presents that we say are from us, because Joe might be onto us, but …
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A HIKE
After a mere seven years of marriage, I have officially been inducted into Morrison’s family by proving I can cut in on a family hike, and what’s more CHANGE A BLOWOUT AT TEN THOUSAND FEET. …
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people make people
One of my favorite thing about people is that they make other people. With the people they love, they make people, who then find people THEY love, and make more people. Soon the house needs …
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take a bow
One of my favorite things about Morrison’s family (specifically my Mother-in-Law) is that they put bows, like actual RIBBON BOWS, on presents. At Christmas time, every present is wrapped and tied up with a piece …
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Ice cream
Joe’s namesake, my grandpa Joe, ate a bowl of Neapolitan ice cream basically every night of his life, up until his death. Even in the throes of Alzheimer’s he knew he needed his ice cream, …
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Why to marry my husband
There’s a lot of reasons why marrying Morrison was the best and most logical thing I’ve ever done, but the most recent one: this toilet training sticker chart that he custom made for Joe (NOTE: …
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if you give a kid a sister
One of the reasons we wanted to have a second kid was that so Joe would cultivate independence, know that the world does not revolve around him, not that it’s impossible to teach this to …